Vinod Bhat
Delhi, 07 Jan:
The Department of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, MoA&FW, Government of India has prepared a fresh draft Pesticides Management Bill, 2025 in alignment with current requirements. It is intended to replace the present Insecticides Act, 1968 and the Insecticides Rules, 1971 made thereunder.
The draft Pesticides Management Bill, 2025 is a farmer-centric legislation with several salient features. The revised Bill incorporates provisions such as transparency and traceability to ensure better services to farmers, thereby promoting ease of living. It includes reform-oriented measures, including the use of technology and digital methods for streamlining processes, along with stricter control over spurious pesticides through higher penalties. Provisions have also been made for compounding of offences, with enhanced penalties to act as a deterrent, to be defined by State-level authorities. Further, amendments have been introduced to strengthen administrative control and management of pesticides, striking a balance between ease of life and ease of doing business. This bill also provides for mandatory accreditation of testing laboratories, ensuring that only quality pesticides is available to farmers.
As part of the pre-legislative consultation process, the draft Pesticides Management Bill, 2025 and the prescribed format are available on the Ministry’s website: https://agriwelfare.gov.in.
The Comments and suggestions on draft bill and its provision are invited from all stakeholders and the general public. The comments/suggestions may be sent by email to pp1.pesticides[at]gov[dot]in rajbir.yadava[at]gov[dot]in/ jyoti.uttam[at]gov[dot]in in MS word or PDF format as early as possible but latest by 04.02.2026 in the following format.
Click on the Link to see the draft copy of the Pesticides Management Bill.
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